The hand of God creates; it does not conceal. The Name of The Rose

Patriotism is merely a religion--love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. As Regards Patriotism

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!" Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion. Gorgias